JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams and her death.

In memory of Jina 'Mahsa' Amini, the cornerstone of the 'Zan. Zendagi. Azadi revolution.
16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali

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Read all about the assasination of the 22 year young Jhina Mahsa Amini or Zhina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the Zan, zendagi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran  2022
and the ZZA Revolution per month:  May--April--March--Feb--Jan 2023  
covering the period of the 'Women Life Freedom' revolution in 2023 and with links to the period of  the murdering of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 2022 'till December 2022.. 
updated 6 May 2023

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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.


Iranwire - May 5, 2023
<<Iranian Sunni Cleric Questions Nuclear Program’s <Value> Amid Increasing Poverty
Iran's most prominent Sunni cleric again used his Friday sermon to criticize the Islamic Republic's policies, saying that the intensifying economic crisis has impoverished many Iranians. <You have missed all opportunities to solve the nuclear crisis and have failed to address the issue of sanctions,> Molavi Abdulhamid, the Sunni Friday prayer leader of the south-eastern city of Zahedan, said on May 5. <One must question the value of the nuclear program, which has led the country to this point,> Molavi said. He added that members of the Islamic Republic's elite, who <sold the sanctioned oil while the nation suffered,> are the only ones to benefit from the sanctions. The 76-year-old cleric said that even members of the military forces and government employees are now struggling to make ends meet with <a meager monthly income of 10 million toman, equivalent to around $200.> He also expressed skepticism about the government's plan to sell off state-owned assets to cover revenue shortfall. After prayers, Zahedan residents took to the streets for weekly protests and shouted slogans against the Islamic Republic and its leader, Ali Khamenei. Zahedan is the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan, home to Iran's Sunni Baluch minority of up to 2 million people. Molavi has been a key dissenting voice inside Iran since the eruption of nationwide protests in September 2022 demanding fundamental economic, social and political changes.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116234-iranian-sunni-cleric-questions-nuclear-programs-value-amid-increasing-poverty/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: Long live Molavi Abdulhamid, possible new religious leader and Sepideh Gholian, possible new president-elect of a new Iran.

Iranwire - May 5, 2023
Iranian Teachers' Rights Activist Killed in Baluchistan
The Coordinating Council of Teachers Union has condemned the <brutal killing> of a teacher and trade union activist in the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, and urged the authorities to identify and punish the perpetrators. Hossein Mehdipour was killed in an attack by unknown armed individuals on May 2, which coincided with Teachers' Day in Iran, the council said on its Telegram channel on May 4. It said Mehdipour died after sustaining severe injuries. Mehdipour's killing is suspected to be related to his activities in the defense of teachers' rights. Mehdipour, who managed a Telegram channel advocating teachers' rights, has been arrested for his activism.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116227-iranian-teachers-rights-activist-killed-in-baluchistan/

Iranwire - May 5, 2023
Iranian Activist Gholian Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for <Insulting> Khamenei
The Iranian judiciary has sentenced well-known civil rights activist Sepideh Gholian to two years in prison for <insulting> the Islamic Republic's supreme leader. <We received the news yesterday that Sepideh has been sentenced to another two years in prison, which effectively means starting over what we thought had just ended,> her brother Mehdi wrote on Instagram on May 5. <Sepideh has been in and out of incarceration and exile since the fall of 2018,> he added. Gholian was re-arrested in March, hours after she posted on Twitter a video of herself without the mandatory hijab shouting slogans against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei upon her release from Tehran's Evin prison. Gholian was initially detained during a workers' strike in November 2018 and later sentenced to 19 years and six months in prison. The sentence was reduced to five years on appeal.
The activist was released on March 15 after being granted <amnesty.> <Khamenei the Zahhak! We'll take you down into the grave,> she shouted outside Evin prison, referring to a mythical king said to have fed serpents growing out of his shoulders with young people's brains. As the video showing Gholian’s act of defiance was spreading on social media, police stopped the car carrying Gholian and her family and detained the activist.
After being held for several hours in Arak, south-west of Tehran, she was transferred to Ward 209 of Evin prison on the same day. The judiciary announced in April it had charged Gholian with <insult> and that the indictment was sent to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on March 19. The activist was subjected to physical abuse and threatened with rape while in custody, a relative has told IranWire.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116226-iranian-activist-gholian-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison-for-insulting-khamenei/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: Let us all shout in choir: <Khamenei the Zahhak! We'll take you down into the grave,>

Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 5, 2023
<<Overnight protests continue in Iran, Rojhilat
News Center- In the eighth month of the <Jin, Jiyan, Azadi> protests that sparked in Iran and Rojhilat following the killing of Jina Mahsa Amin in police custody, people fighting for freedom continue to hold overnight protests in many cities of Iran and Rojhilat. Last night, many people took to the streets in the cities of Kermanshah, Saneh, Urmia, Arak, Tehran, Gachsaran, Bushehr, Isfahan, Bam, Saravan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Rasht and several other cities. Chanting anti-regime slogans, the protesters set fire to the bases of the Basij Resistance Force, a volunteer paramilitary organization operating under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and government buildings. Despite the ongoing arrests, detentions and executions, the protesters continue to take to the streets to build a democratic system by overthrowing the oppressive regime.>>
Source incl. video:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/overnight-protests-continue-in-iran-rojhilat-33219

Iranwire - May 4, 2023
<<Iranian Director Rasoulof Barred from Leaving Country for Cannes Festival
Dissident Iranian-film-maker Mohammad Rasoulof has confirmed that he is unable to accept an invitation from the Cannes Film Festival to participate in one of its juries because he had been barred from leaving Iran. Rasoulof told the online news site Deadline on May 3 that no explanation was given for rejecting his travel request. News of the travel ban first broke via Radio France Internationale (RFI), which reported that the Cannes festival had hoped to secure Rasoulof's participation in its Un Certain Regard jury. The festival is set to take place from May 16 to May 27. Rasoulof was temporarily released from Tehran's Evin jail in February following a seven-month incarceration. He was arrested in July 2022 for his signing a petition calling on security forces to exercise restraint regarding popular protests. Rasoulof’s films <Manuscripts Don't Burn> (2013) and <A Man Of Integrity> (2017) world premiered in Un Certain Regard in 2013 and 2017, winning the Fipresci prize and best film prize, respectively. His film There Is No Evil won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2020. Last week, news emerged that fellow dissident director Jafar Panahi had left Iran for the first time in 14 years following the lifting of his travel ban.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/society/116208-iranian-director-rasoulof-barred-from-leaving-country-for-cannes-festival/

Iranwire - May 4, 2023
<<Fifth Improper Burial of a Baha'i by Iranian Officials
Officials in Iran have buried another deceased Baha'i citizen without notifying the family or allowing for a Baha'i religious ceremony. The body of Maryam Moinipour, a 92-year-old Baha'i citizen who passed away in Tehran on April 11, was buried in the Khavaran cemetery, southwest of the capital Tehran, by officials on Wednesday, May 3, after being kept in the morgue for three weeks. Officials had also prevented the deceased's family from claiming the remains. Moinipour's family was also prevented from then burying the remains at the the Baha'i-owned Behesht Zahra cemetery. Officials there demanded a payment of 30 million tomans ($600) to release the body. In addition, Masoud Momeni, a Ministry of Intelligence official who has claimed to be the head of the Baha'i cemetery in Tehran, threatened to bury Moinipour's body in a mass grave without the family's knowledge if they did not comply with his demands. The Baha'i International Community has said in recent weeks that Momeni took control of the cemetery in 2021 without the consent of Baha'is in Iran. Despite refusing Momeni's demands for payment, Moinipour's family was unable to prevent the improper burial of their loved one in Khavaran. This is the fifth time a Baha'i citizen has been buried without their family present by agents in Khavaran, a burial place for hundreds of political prisoners who were executed in the 1980s. Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Baha'is in Iran have faced systematic discrimination and harassment, including deportation, restrictions on education, property confiscations, imprisonment, torture, and executions.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/116190-fifth-improper-burial-of-a-bahai-by-iranian-officials/

Iranwire - May 4, 2023
<<Activists Say Internet Shutdowns in Baluchistan Must Stop
Dozens of human rights groups and activists have condemned the frequent internet outages imposed by the Iranian authorities on the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, saying the restrictions <not only violate freedom of expression but also serve to cover up human rights violations.> <For more than three months, the people of Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province, particularly its capital city of Zahdan, have been enduring internet shutdowns every Friday, coinciding with Friday prayers and protests held at the same time,> 23 organizations and four human rights activists, along with Keep It On, a global coalition of human rights groups working to end internet shutdowns, said in a statement. <This ongoing disruption to the internet has resulted in significant challenges for the local community, who heavily rely on online communication for their daily activities,> they added. Zahedan residents have been holding protest rallies every Friday since September 30, 2022, when security forces killed nearly 100 people, in the deadliest incident in the nationwide demonstrations triggered by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in police custody. The statement pointed out that the Iranian government has <a well-documented record of using internet shutdowns to silence dissent and crackdown on protests across the country.> It called on the International Telecommunication Union to pressure Iran to stop disrupting internet services in the region. The signatories, which include human rights organizations that monitor rights violations in Sistan and Baluchistan, also called for <greater scrutiny of the Iranian government's human rights abuses, including efforts to silence its citizens.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116192-activists-say-internet-shutdowns-in-baluchistan-must-stop/

Iranwire - May 4, 2023
<<Whereabouts of 74-Year-Old Journalist Unknown Two Weeks after Arrest
Detained dissident journalist Keyvan Samimi has been held at an undisclosed location, incommunicado, for 14 days, his daughter says. In a tweet on May 3, Adele Samimi said that the family has been denied information about the 74-year-old journalist's whereabouts or his condition. She expressed concern about her father's health, saying he suffers from a heart condition. The family still doesn't know which prosecution branch is handling his case, she added... <It has been 14 days since the arrest of Keyvan Samimi, and we still have no news about my father. They didn't even give him a phone to call and didn’t inform us of his location. If he hasn't been kidnapped, what do you call what’s happened to him?> she asked. Samimi was arrested in Tehran on April 20 and taken to an undisclosed location, three months after his release from prison following two years of incarceration. The journalist was scheduled to address on April 21 a virtual panel discussion called <Dialogue to Save Iran,> which was organized by a group of Iranian journalists and university professors. A former editor of the now-banned intellectual magazine Iran-e Farda (Iran Tomorrow), Samimi has been imprisoned several times, before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He was detained in December 2020 to serve a three-year sentence and was released in January this year. In February 2022, Samimi was provisionally released from prison due to health issues but was re-incarcerated in May. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Iranian authorities have arrested at least 95 other journalists since anti-government protests erupted across the country following the death in police custody of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/116186-whereabouts-of-74-year-old-journalist-unknown-two-weeks-after-arrest/
Note by Gino d'Artali: For more information about 'Iranian journalists under siege' go here:
www.cryfreedom.net/ZAA-JMA-2023-may-pen-vs-sword-preface.htm

Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 3, 2023
<<Iranian journalist Niloofar Hamedi granted Press Freedom award
News Center- The Association of German Journalists (DJV) of Hessen has granted the 2023 Press Freedom Award to Iranian journalist Niloofar Hamedi, who is imprisoned for breaking the news about Jina Mahsa Amini. The association grants annually the Press Freedom award to journalists, who are unjustly imprisoned or prosecuted, on the World Press Freedom Day (3 May). The statement released by the association on Tuesday, May 2, said, <The protests that were fueled by the report of this young journalist are still going on and the Islamic regime has not been able to stop it.>
On Tuesday, the United Nations announced that Niloofar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi and Narges Mohammadi have been named as the laureates of the 2023 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, following the recommendation of an International Jury of media professionals. The Award Ceremony will take place on the evening of 2 May in New York, in the presence of Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO.
What happened?
A Kurdish woman named Jina Mahsa Amini was tortured in custody by Iran's so-called <Morality police> in Tehran for wearing her compulsory hijab inappropriately. After three days at a hospital in Tehran, she died. After her death, young journalist Niloofar Hamedi tweeted a photo of Amini's parents hugging and crying in the hospital. That photo quickly spread along with her reporting on the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini. Niloofar Hamedi was arrested by security forces on September 21, 2022 for her reports. She has been imprisoned since then. Another Iranian journalist Elaheh Mohammadi was arrested by security forces on September 29, 2022 for reporting about the police attack at the funeral of Jina Mahsa Amini in Saqqez.
Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi are joint winners of both the 2023 International Press Freedom Award of the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and Harvard's 2023 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. They were named as two of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2023.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/iranian-journalist-niloofar-hamedi-granted-press-freedom-award-33204

Jinha - Womens News Center - By Hema Rad - May 2, 2023
<<Female protester in Eastern Kurdistan: We have nothing to lose!
Sanandaj- While the <Jin, Jiyan, Azadi> protests have continued in the cities of Iran and Eastern Kurdistan, also known as Rojhilat, for eight months, the Iranian authorities have used all kinds of repression to quell the protests. Being at the frontline of protests, women remove their hijab as a resistance against patriarchal laws and oppression. Although women, who remove their hijab in public spaces, have received threats, they do not take a step back from their struggle against the patriarchal mentality.
'Women should wear whatever they want'
B.N. is a woman joining the <Jin, Jiyan, Azadi> protests in Eastern Kurdistan. She and a group of women leave a note reading, <We have nothing to lose> on the windshield of cars belonging to women in order to call on women to resist the mandatory law. <I drive without a hijab. I leave this note on the windshield of cars belonging to women to tell them that they should not be afraid of driving without a hijab. Women have the right to wear whatever they want. They should wear whatever they want,> B.N. told NuJINHA.
'We will keep resisting'
B.M. asked us to keep her name confidential due to security reasons. She believes that the uprising led by women in Iran and Eastern Kurdistan is the uprising of women in the Middle East and the world. <Women have been oppressed in the country for years, so we grew up by struggling. We've been fighting the patriarchy since we became aware of our gender.> Speaking about the difference between their mothers' struggle and their struggle, she said, <Each generation of women has its own struggle. Our mothers struggled against the burdens imposed on them. Resistance was part of their personality and they raised their daughters to struggle against the patriarchal system. Our mothers struggled for years for their daughters for the next generations to become more independent. Thanks to the struggle of our mothers, women are now on the frontline of the protests.>
'We must fight even if we are afraid'
Recalling Abdullah Ocalan's words saying, <A country can't be free unless the women are free,> B.N. said, <Living in a society without discrimination is important. We must fight even if we are afraid. Some do not leave their safe houses but they lie to themselves. They should stop lying to themselves. We will win or die; there is no other option for us.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/female-protester-in-eastern-kurdistan-we-have-nothing-to-lose-33198?page=1
Note by Gino: Abdullah Ocalan is the leader-elect by the Kurdish people and jailed in solitary by the turkisch dictatorship.

NCRI - Women Committee - Women's news - May 2, 2023
<<Five female political prisoners transferred from Qarchak to Evin Prison
Five female political prisoners have been transferred from the notorious Qarchak Prison to Evin
Five female political prisoners were transferred from Qarchak Prison to the Evin Prison on Monday, May 1, 2023. There is no information on the reason for the transfer of the five female political prisoners. It is speculated that considering that all of them are political prisoners detained for their political activities, their transfer to the Evin Prison could signal the adoption of harsher policies towards political activities by the clerical regime in Iran. Political prisoners in Iran, particularly women, face numerous problems in jail, including unsanitary conditions, lack of access to treatment, lack of access to defense counsel, restriction of their calls and visitations, etc. The five female political prisoners transferred to Evin on Monday, May 1, were Fatemeh Ziaii Azad (Hoorieh), Elaheh Mohammadi, Niloufar Hamedi, Soha Mortezaii, and Zohreh Sarv.>>
Read more about them/background and their situation now here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/05/02/five-female-political-prisoners/

Iranwire - May 2, 2023
<<Khavaran Cemetery: a Symbol of Repression against Baha'is, Mass Executions
The name of Khavaran, a cemetery southwest of Tehran, has long been associated with the criminal history of the Islamic Republic. Many victims of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, whose bodies were never identified or returned to their families, are buried here in unmarked, mass graves. Also resting there are Baha'is who are buried in a plot paid for by Baha'i philanthropists. The Iranian regime has tried to wipe out any trace of this gruesome period, including by desecrating and vandalizing Khavaran Cemetery, while the victims' families have done everything in their power to keep the memory of their loved ones alive.
Bidaran, the first website documenting the 1988 massacre, has now launched a campaign titled <Khavaran Endures.>
The first virtual seminar organized as part of this campaign was held on the Clubhouse app on April 27. Speakers included internationally recognized human rights lawyer Mehrangiz Kar, journalist and writer Vahid Vahdat-Hagh, journalist and activist Taghi Rahmani, writer and historian Naser Mohajer, women's rights activist Monireh Baradaran, Farhad Sabetan, a spokesman for the Baha'i International Community, artist and critic Barbad Golshiri and journalist Mohammad Javad Akbarin. Other speakers included Mahin Fahimi and Zohreh Tonekaboni, members of the grieving families who lost loved ones in the 1988 massacre.
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Few, if any, Iranians have not heard of Khavaran Cemetery, which for a long time was used as a burial ground for Tehran's Christian Armenians and Baha'is. The cemetery is now surrounded by high concrete walls to conceal the crimes committed by the Islamic Republic. In the early 1980s, it was turned into a graveyard for executed political prisoners because - as Ayatollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Republic, said - leftist political prisoners were <apostates> who must not be buried with Muslims. According to the families of those executed in the 1980s, the graves were first individually marked. But after the summer of 1988, when thousands of political prisoners were sentenced by a <death panel> that included the current President Ebrahim Raisi, the families found that the bodies of their loved ones were piled on top of each other across the graveyard. Those who had buried these young men didn't even bother pouring enough soil on the mass graves, leaving their bodies exposed to the elements. After the destruction of Golestan Javid, the cemetery of Tehran's Baha'is, an area of Khavaran was purchased by Baha'i philanthropists to be used as a final resting place for Baha’is. But in the past few years, the government has prevented Baha’is from burying their loved ones there and tried to bury them with the victims of the 1988 massacre. It has even stolen the bodies of the dead Baha'is. As recently as on March 30, an agent of the Intelligence Ministry buried a deceased Baha'i from tehran, Behzad Majidi, in Khavaran Cemetery without the cemetery officials observing Baha'i funeral rites and without notifying the family, and after officials tried to charge the bereaved an <exorbitant> large sum for the burial.
<Knowing the Truth is Part of Seeking Justice> >>
And find all about the truth here:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/116123-khavaran-cemetery-a-symbol-of-repression-against-bahais-mass-executions/
 

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